WOMEN AND MONEY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 508, 15 May 1909, Page 11

WOMEN AND MONEY.

. When woman is treated' like a rational animal in the matter of money, she usually justifies the experiment. ; Why-shouldn't she? It is she who feels financial whb suffers the effect of extravagances, business or personal, more than man, says "Harper's Bazar." You,: John, must. ride to your office every morning, no matter whether dividends have been declared or assessments levied upon your investments. You must be decently clad to meet your fellow men 'in business. You must have a nourishing luncheon at noon to support the rigours of the afternoon work, and your worries over the miserablo state of the market must.bo soothed by a cigar... . Meantime, in periods of finanoial depression, your .wife has walked to market—which needn't at all disturb you, for it's good for her—to save carfare; she has said to the cook—unless, indeed,, she has dismissed that functionary— "Just bring me a cup of teh and some toast for my luncheon; I'm not hungry." ' • She has returned the. tickets for the series of Philharmonic concerts and she has asked the dressmaker to, try to . dispose of the yellow silk frock whioh was'justabout;to come home. Your wife, John, dreads debt. It is she who has to face the creditors'when there is debt, you see. _ '.- : It is she who asks the gasman to call again, and who represents to a stem and relentless telephone company that Mr. Brown will 'send a cheque at once, and .that it would be very kind of the telephone company not to cut off the service meantime. It is she' upon whom the unpaid butoher lowers, and sho whom the unpaid baker pesters, and she,who has learned to dread the ringing of the doorbell lest it . herald a dun. . You, you see; are down town busied with great things,'and are mercifully removed from these trifling; harassments. But they are the experiences which make women conservative in expenditures.- It is the age-long experience of tho sex in this regard whioh'has made woman, with capital, tho conservative—the coward, if you will—in matters of expenditure.